Decorah public opinion., July 05, 1922, Image 2

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Electric Co. Improving Property
It is interesting to note that North
west Utilities interests operating in
Wisconsin near Oshkosh have pur
chased the Eastern Wisconsin Elec
tric Company. A transmission line is
tinder construction that wiM connect
Sheboygan as far west as the Inter
state Power Co.’s territory in lowa
and south in Illinois, the inter con
nection of these properties, from the
Jargest unit operating in Wisconsin.
Mrs. C. H. Witt passed away Sat
urday morning at her home on East
Main street, death being due to
Cancerous tiouble. The deceased be
came a resklent of Decorah about
three months ago, earning here with
her husband and young son from
Waverly. They resided in the I.
W. Ward residence on East Main
ctreet. The deceased was born in
Wisconsin on Aug. 27, 1877. She is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jack
Emrick, of Waverly, and a young
son ten years of age and the be
reaved husband. Funeral services
were held at the home Sunday morn
ing, conducted by Rev. Woodall of
the Methodist church and the re-
mains were taken to Spencer Sunday
morning for interment in Riverside
Cemetery.
Apprehends Auto Thief at Cresco
Sheriff Ebert arrested an auto thief |'
lOTWtt'thefFtfT'a Bulck car at Fadi-T^
mmt, Minnesota Saturday evening. |: 1
T'he fellow gives his name as Jim I
O’Connor, and from evidence in the ,
sheriff’s possession it seems that he I
stole a Ford in Kossuth county, lowa, |
«n<l later abandoned or disposed of
it and stole the Buck at Fairmont.
When taken with the Buick it was
found that he was operating it under
ihe altered lowa certificate of regis
tration, the card plainly showing the
alterations. O’Connor ran out of
gasoline a couple of miles the other
side of’ KendallvHle and endeavored
to buy some and wu.s reported by
Amos Moon to the sheriff who inves
tigated the matter and placed the
man under arrest.
On Tuesday the sheriff from Fair
mont came down and took O’Connor
with him. It is quite probable that
an obi hand at the auto stealing has
been captured.
Sheriff Ebert received a letter yes
terday from W. S. Carver, the sheriff
of Fairmont, stating that O’Connor
had plead guilty to stealing the car
and also admitted steal ng the Ford
at Swea City.—Cresoo Plain Dealer.
B f It has been the Policy of this Store since 1876 to $
Reduce Stock After July 4th j
EFor that reason we are at this time making tremendous reductions throughout our Ej| *
entire double store. J
A* Suits for Men, Young Men, Boys and Juveniles a |
are marked way below their wholesale value and we absolutely guarantee a saving of many Dollars on ®
r your purchase of a good all wool suit. Special offerings are made in fine
RHAND TAILOKKI) SUITS at 518.50 to 825 |3 J
surely pre-war prices. Our fine HART SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS at S3O are world beaters at this I •
• price; our personal guarantee with every suit. PALM BEACH SUITS, real Palm Beach quality at $14.50, •
Smade up in first-class workmanship. Our FURNISHING DEPARTMENT Is complete—good Union Suits !
at 50c to sl, fine Balbriggan Union Suits at sl, very good; Hose at two for 25c; a new line of extra quality %
Dress Negligee Shirts at $1.25. A complete assortment of Trunks, Suitcases, Pouches, Working Men’s g
Clothes, all marked to the lowest prices. Trade with us. We are good people to tie to §
fgsMic ©pinion.
Telephone No. 15
Death of Mrs. C. H. Witt
CHICKEN THIEVES BUSY
John V. De('ou of Near Ossian Lost
Large Number Leghorns by
Theft Friday Night.
Mr. and Mrs. John V. DeCou and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Uhlenhake at
tended a farm bureau picnic Friday
evening, leaving the children and a
daughter of the L hlenhakes at the
DeCou home. Between ten and
eleven that night the children heard
someone in the farm yard, and after
a little investigation they discovered
that the “gentlemen” had flashlights
which they were using without fear
of detection. The children were so
frightened that they dared not give
an alarm. After remaining on the
farm for nearly an hour the thieves
departed in an automobile which
they had parked near the roadway
and headed toward Ossian. On their
return home, Mr. and Mrs. DeCou
found that about fifty or sixty White
Leghorn chickens had been stolen.
The next morning they reported their
loss to Marshal Grimstad, ot Ossian,
but the fact that there was n* clew
to work on, the thieves made a clean
getaway. All the neighboring towns
were notified to be on the lookout,
but to date no information has been
obtained.
.Saturday night Jens Egeland, a
neighbor of the DeCous, found that
his hen house had been entered and
relieved of about fifty chickens, the
theft having been committed Friday
night. Mr. Egeland was in the
south part of the county during the
evening and did not return home un
til after twelve, during which time
the thieves had things pretty much
their own way.
Load your shotgun, Mr. Fanner,
and keep it within easy reach.—Os
sian Bee.
Lowering the School Tax
It is comparatively easy to resolve
to reduce expenses and lower taxa
tion. Just lately in Knoxville a
meeting of all the taxing bodies of i
the county resolved to lower the lev- J
ies 10 per cent. But the Knoxville,
school board announced that it did |
not propose to lower salaries, but
expected to make enough off outside
pupils to lower its levy. Then many
of the outside districts found they
could not lower their levies 10 per
cent unless the tuition they pay to
Knoxville high school can be lowered |
proportionately. Then the school j
board at Pella cut teachers wages 10 (
per cent and it raised a storm of pro-
Iti I A --r ***”- * u r chsm&rt ;
of commerce tried to get the direc
tors to rescind their action, which
was taken by a 3 to 2 vote, but the
1 board refused. A mass meeting was
called and all the interested citizens
|of the town attended. By a more
than two thirds vote the assembly
voted to condemn the school board
for the cut in wages and the direc
tors capitulated, rescinding its re
' ductiou of the salaries. Everybody
■ clamors for lower taxe>, but how
f easy it is to get up popular enthusi
' asm for the expenditures that make
l jhigh taxes necessary! It doesn’t
take a school board, or a city council,
■jot a board of supervisors, or a legis
; lature very long to find out whether
its constituents really want to re
• trench or merely talk about retrench
r ment. —Knoxville Express.
The activity of those who are try
ing to induce the United States to
take upon itself the troubles of Eur
ope ought to be effective in arousing
those unhyphen-ated Americans who
believe that the United States will
have enough to do to mind its own
business, says the Logan Observer.
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NEW MANAGER AT W INNESHIEK
Mr. John Seaton, Formerly of
Zumhro at Rochester, Minn.
Takes Management of
Winneshiek.
Mr. Edwin A. Boss, of Oelwein,
who recently purchased the Winne
shiek hotel has selected Mr. John
Seaton to manage the Winneshiek
here. Mr. Seaton is a well knewn
hotel man, for seven years being
manager of the Zumbro, at Roches
ter, Minn., and the last year and a
half being manager of the Gardston
Hotel at Estherville.
Mr. Boss now owns seven fine
hotels over the state, the Mealey at
Oelwein, Holst, Boone, lowa, Brad
ford, Storm Lake, Gardston, Esther
ville, Park, Sac City, The Algona, at
Algona and the Winneshiek at De
corah. Mr. Boss is now negotiating
for the Gedney at Independence and
about Sept. 1, expects to have charge
of this hotel.
Stolen Autos New Industry
The automobile has developed a
new industry. W. H. Howe of Sid
ney, Fremont county, says that the
Missouri river will be dragged for
automobiles and trucks which were
hired stolen by their owners who af
terwards collected insurance. Three
arrests have already been made by
officers working in connection with
the aute thief bureau. The prison
ers, whose names are being withheld
by officials until the 'roundup is
completed, are said to have impli
cated several persons in Council
Bluffs w’hom they alleged paid for
their cars to be stolen and hidden
in the river. Before he proceeded
to Ft. Madison, R. C. Betty, one of
the confessed robbers of the Pisgah
bank told Sheriff W’alter Milliman
and State Agent H. Yackey of more
than a dozen cases with which he
was familiar concerning car owners
who him! men to steal their ma
chines and drive them into the riv
er so that insurance could be collect
ed. “If the Missouri river ever
changed its course and ran around
Council Bluffs, miles of stolen cars
would be exposed in the mud on the
river bed,” are Beatty’s words.
Your Own Neighborhood
Lots of people live an isolated life.
They cut their own grass, sprinkle
their own lawns, drive their own
autos—all alone —and never stop to
think they live in a neighborhood.
It is because of such
Otg-Mfl —etgttCorhooa ’spfnt has
about med out. Of course, people
who live isolated lives never do much
for a neighborhood. They eat and
sleep in their own homes, and that’s
about all that make it home.
They’re honest and respectable, of
course, but that isn’t all that is ex
pected of a person. If you live near
people you ought to be friendly with
them. No town or community can
become greater than the people who
live in it, and if a majority of our
citizens should act like a few we
know it wouldn’t be a community
worth making a home in.
Sealed Proposals
Will be received by the secretary
of the school board of the Independ
ent School District of Decorah, lowa,
in said city until the hour of 2
o'clock p. m. on the 21st day of July
1922, for the reshingling and repair
of the present roof of the old high
school building at Winnebago and
Vernon streets, and the grade school
building in West Decorah. This work
will be done and completed in ac
cordance with specifications on file
at the office of the secretary’.
C. F. BAHFOOT,
25-4 w Secretary of School Board
Oiling Streets Expensive
The Echo man has always been an
advocate of street oil, and would be
so today could street oil be purchas
ed at anything near a reasonable
price, says the Elgin Echo. When
Elgin first began to apply oil on her
streets it cost approximately S3OO a
car. Since then crude or street oil
has steadily advanced until now' it
costs something near SI,OOO a car.
This is only a dust layer for a por
tion of the year and is not a perma
nent road builder. We believe that
street oil has now about reached the
state of a luxury, and that w-hen our
gravel wears down in years to come
it would be more economical for our
business men to pave the principal
business streets than to “dig up” far
oil year after year. To pave in front
of the Echo office would cost the
Echo man about $l3O and this in
vestment would be for a permanent
impiovement.—Elgin Echo.
SPENDING THEIR VACATIONS
Where and How Luther College Pro
fessors Will Spend the Summer.
The faculty at Luther College has
broken up for the summer, a num
ber staying in Decorah and others
going to several universities for
summer work.
Those who will spend the vaea
ton in Lecorah are Dr. Olson, Prof.
Sihler, Prof. Sheel, Dr. Rivelstad,
Dr. Gjerset and Profs. Sperati, Jac
obson, K. O. Eittreim, Qualley and
Hovde.
Prof. Enoch Peterson will continue
his studies at the University of
Michigan through the summer. Also
Prof. Tinglestad will continue at the
University of Chicago, w'here Prof.
Talle joined him last week.
Prof, and Mrs. Francis Peterson
left for New- York by automobile
shortly after school closed. Prof.
Peterson will attend Columbia Uni
versity in the city of New York.
Coach Ivan Doseff will spend the
summer with his biother, in Chicago,
where he will take care of bis com
mercial interests.
Dr. 0. M. Norlie will be in Decor
ah until the end of this month when
he will leave for New’ York to re
sume his duties with the Lutheran
Bureau of the National Lutheran
Council.
Piof. David Nelson will spend the
summer : n Chicago.
Profs. Trytten, O. M. Eittreim and
Strom will spend the summer in
study at the State University of
> -nere rroi. itvanson expects
to join them during the second
term.
The faculty next year will be the
same as during the past year, with
one exception. Prof. O. W. Qualley
will study at the University of
Michigan. Prof. Qualley ha* been
awarded the Buhl Classical Fellow
ship for next year. This fellowship
carries an honorarium of SBOO with
free tuition and was held by Prof.
Enoch Peterson last year. It is the
most desirable fellowship offered by
the Classical department at Michi
gan. Prof. Qualey intends to pre
pare himself for the degree of Mas
er of Arts in Latin and Greek.
Hamlet E. Peterson of this year’s
senior class has been engaged to fill
the vacancy caused by Prof. Qual
ley’a absence. “Pete” as he is best
known to Decorah fans, will coach
the preparatory department teams
and will be assigned his teaching
lead in f he preparatory department
The man who boasts that he takes
a cold bath very day in the year, is
now beginning to take it.
| Stop Look Listen j
Do you know the BIG SHORES* LINE •
•OF REMEDIES are In town, on sale at 211 ;
: Washington Street, across from the Na- •
• tional Hotel? ;
| We have a full line of extracts, baking J
: powder, spices, toilet articles, salves, lini- j
• ments, family remedies, furniture polish, •
: washing tablets, stock dip, healing pow- j
• ders, louse and insect powders, stock foods, •
| and a lot of other things yon need. •
CALL RED 403 |
j and tell us what you want. •
[ Clark V. Manning j
• Across the street from the National Hotel ;
• representing •
SHORES’ RETAIL SERVICE
• Cedar Rapids, lowa 27-5 w 2
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MUCH of the high
regard for the name
Marquette on a sack of
Portland cement is due
to the prompt and genu
ine co-operation extended
for many years to those
- whom we serve.
Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co.
Marquette Building, Chicago
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